“I’m walking away from MMA for now. It said I was retiring from MMA and people assumed that I was done with fighting forever and that was going to be the end of it. But, it’s not, that’s not what happened. I’m just taking a break, taking a timeout from MMA. Just stepping away from it, man. My last few fights, something was missing. Something wasn’t there, was a bit of love and attraction to wrestling and grappling to having to defend take-downs. Which is fine, that’s part of the sport and that’s what I signed up for, but my last two outings that I had, anytime you lose a fight and get up and say, ‘I lost, oh well, so what.’ It wasn’t so much, ‘so what,’ something wasn’t there.”

“Wrestling, doing jiu-jitsu for the sake of doing jiu-jitsu, that’s great, especially with a gi on, I enjoy it, it’s great exercise, everything. But when it comes to being in a fight, no thank you. I want to stand and hit each other and let’s see who has the biggest nuts in the ring.”

Pat Barry started off his combat sports career as a kick boxer. He obtained multiple world titles in Wushu, Kung Fu, Sanshou and kickboxing before getting picked up by K-1 in 2005 where he saw moderate success, making the semi-finals of the K-1 World Grand Prix in 2007.

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